Color Me Impressed…

When it comes to coloring easter eggs, my skills are – comparatively – on par with my jack-o-lantern carving skills: somewhere between “just passable enough to get by” and “Heyyyyy, you keep at, little soldier!”. If you give me several cups of colored vinegar and a dozen eggs, I can probably give you 5 eggs that are colored; 4 eggs that I got fancy with that are 45% one color, 45% a second color, and 10% a disgusting brown-ish where the two colors overlapped in the middle; and 3 eggs that I dropped in to the cup too hard and cracked.

That’s it. That’s what I have to bring to the table. Any Easter Magic is on you after that. Give me a wax crayon or anything and you’ve designated some poor egg to be, at best, ugly. At worst? To ruin your day with it’s sad awfulness.

But many people have what is known as “skill,” and produce lovely, artistic eggs. Here’s a sampling of some of 2012’s finest. The first, very traditional.

Others go for a different approach. For many, where there’s an opportunity, there is Star Wars.

Simple, yet ingenious.

Or maybe Star Wars isn’t your thing, for some tragic reason. Maybe you’re more of a Harry Potter fan…

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Recently voted "The Best Humor Blog in America That I, Personally, Write," The Byronic Man is sometimes fiction, sometimes autobiography. And sometimes cultural criticism. Oh, and occasionally reviews. Okay, it's all those different things, but always humorous. Except on the occasions that it's not. Ah, geez. Look, it's a lot of things, okay? You might like it, is the point.

You gotta love temporary art. Easter eggs, Jack-o-lanterns, Sand castles, Those insanely cool sidewalk chalk drawings. Sure it’s not oil on canvas, but it’s still art. Unlike traditional fine art, almost everyone has tried their hand at the temporary stuff. Most of us are reminded of how we need to stick to blogging when it comes to creative expression. Although, I’ve been told that I draw a pretty mean “Easter Bunny in Repose” .

wow thats some stats you got there…i tried my hand on them too..ended up with… well there were just multicoloured some will say if they loved me enough….
those images are so awesome….how talented/gifted some people are..and here i cant even make anything decent even with clay dough.
loved the easter eggs..the star war one was so cool and funny

Thanks for the Kenny egg, it made my day ! Im thinking I need to try the stormtroopers next year – no egg dye involved (I always end up with awful colored fingernails from that stuff) and I have a year to find the tiny weapons!

Dude, I am an egg dying pro. “No, no, no kids. We don’t try any of those fancy tricks in this house. NO, put it in the pink and THEN the blue. Then back in the pink. Then back in the blue. Eventually you might have one that’s kind of lavender. Yes! We like purple right? OKAY, NOW MAKE ME 23 MORE!”

I chickened out of the whole egg-dying thing this year. I hate to waste food. Instead, I gave my daughter a sharpie and turned her loose on the 10,000 plastic eggs that were left over from last year. All three kids are bitter and resentful, so now it REALLY feels like a holiday!